GCC 4.9 vs. 4.10 (GCC 5.0) Compiler Benchmarks Kaveri
GCC compiler benchmarks by Michael Larabel on an AMD A10-7800 system running GCC 4.10 (what will be GCC 5.0) against GCC 4.9 from Ubuntu Linux x86_64 host.


GCC 4.9.1: 

	Processor: AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88X-PRO, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 200 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-031600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-b1843a2 2014-08-10 trusty-oibaf-ppa+gallium-nine) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

GCC 4.10 20140810: 

	Processor: AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88X-PRO, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 200 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-031600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0-devel (git-b1843a2 2014-08-10 trusty-oibaf-ppa+gallium-nine) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.10.0 20140810, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Blur
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 99  |=====================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 100 |======================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 69 |=======================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 67 |=====================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 123 |======================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 124 |======================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 136 |======================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 137 |======================================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 77 |====================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 82 |=======================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 886.30 |===================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 882.76 |===================================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 62.69 |====================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 61.72 |===================================================


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 251.97 |===================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 233.81 |===============================================


Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 61.92 |====================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 60.57 |===================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 47.47 |====================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 47.34 |====================================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 5.31 |==================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 5.58 |=====================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 19.62 |====================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 19.68 |====================================================


FFmpeg 2.1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 21.47 |====================================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 21.57 |====================================================


Hierarchical INTegration 1.0
Test: FLOAT
QUIPs > Higher Is Better
GCC 4.9.1 ......... 224934338.19 |=============================================
GCC 4.10 20140810 . 219688942.00 |============================================